On Friday, Illegal paramilitary colonizers uprooted and cut more than 100 grapevines in a targeted attack east of the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Media activist, Osama Makhamra, stated that the colonizers cut down grapevines planted across a 4-dunum plot owned by Palestinian farmer Nabil Nawaj’a.
He added that the land is situated in the Ashkara area, southeast of Yatta, near the archaeological site of Khirbet Susiya.
This latest violation is part of a systematic campaign by illegal colonizers to dispossess Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta.
Attacks on agricultural lands and civilian property have intensified, serving the broader goal of forced displacement and colonial expansion on stolen Palestinian lands.
Also Friday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers assaulted an elderly Palestinian man with an amputated leg in the Southern Hebron Hills, in Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
On Thursday evening, a group of paramilitary Israeli colonizers launched an assault on the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
